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Definition: Unmannerly |
UnmannerlyAdjective1. Socially incorrect in behavior; "resentment flared at such an unmannered intrusion". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unmannerly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: UnmannerlySynonyms: ill-mannered (adj), rude (adj), unmannered (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discourtesy | Adjective: discourteous, uncourteous; uncourtly; ill-bred, ill-mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned; unbred; unmannerly, unmannered; impolite, unpolite; unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel; ungentleman-like, ungentlemanly; unladylike; blackguard; vulgar; dedecorous; foul-mouthed foul-spoken; abusive. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unmannerly |
| English words defined with "unmannerly": To use one's self. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unmannerly": HOGGISH. (references) |
| "Unmannerly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Unmannerly" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "unmannerly": unmannerly behaviour. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "unmannerly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i vrazhdë (abrupt, austere, bad tempered, boeotian, boorish, brutal, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, crude, discordant, dissonant, earthy, fretful, grave, gross, hard, hard-fisted, harsh, heavy-handed, ill natured, low-bred, morose, murky, robustious, rough, rough spoken, rude, scurrilous, severe, stern, sullen, surly, truculent, uncivil, unfinished, unhandsome), i paedukuar (dark, ignoramus, ill bred, ill mannered, illiberal, indocile, inurbane, mannerless, rude, uneducated, unenlightened, unintelligent, unlearned, unnurtured, unschooled, untaught, untrained, untutored, without cultural interests). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فظ (abrupt, blunt, boor, boorish, brusque, brutish, burly, chuffy, churlish, clownish, coarse, country, crude, crusty, curt, discourteous, earthy, grievous, gross, gruff, hairy, harsh, hoarse, ill mannered, impolite, indelicate, low, mannerless, obdurate, off hand, plug ugly, precipitous, rough, rough and ready, rude, ruffianly, rugged, rustic, savage, scathe, serious, shaggy, short, sour, surly, uncivil, uncouth, unkind, unprintable), قليل الكياسة, غليظ (boor, churlish, coarse, hoarse, loutish, mannerless, robust, rugged, rustic, stodgy, strongarm, thick, ungainly, wild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неучтив (coarse, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, impolite, mannerless, uncivil, ungracious, unmannered), невъзпитан (cubbish, ill, ill mannered, low, low-bred, mannerless, rude, surly, unbred, underbred, unmannered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hrubý (abusive, blue, boorish, brut, brutish, coarse, coarsened, crass, crude, foul-mouthed, grating, gross, gruff, harsh, howling, knockabout, leathery, low, outrageous, raw, rough, rough and ready, ruddy, rude, rustic, scabrous, sylvan, uncouth, uneven, unprintable, vulgar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sivistymätön (ill-bred, uncultured, uneducated), säädytön (immodest, improper, indecent, unseemly), moukkamainen (boorish, loutish), karkeakäytöksinen (ill-mannered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mal élevé (unbred), impoli (uncivil), discourtois. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ungezogen (bad, bad-mannered, ill mannered, impolite, naughtily, naughty, rude). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αγενήσ (caddish, coarse, discourteous, heel, ignoble, impolite, indelicate, mannerless, rude, saucy, uncivil, uncourteous, underbred, ungracious, unladylike, unmannered). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | modortalan (bounder, churlish, ill mannered, mannerless, tacky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rozzo (boorish, churlish, coarse, crude, cubbish, impolite, loutish, rank, rough, rude, rugged, uncouth, unsubtle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | annerlyunmay malcriado (ill-bred, insolent, naughty, uncivil, underbred), indelicado (brusque, clumsy, displeasing, gross, impolite, indelicate, mannerless, rude, ungracious), grosseiro (awkward, bearish, blanket, boorish, bumbling, caddish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, clumsy, coarse-grained, common, crass, crude, cub, curmudgeon, curmudgeonly, earthy, gross, gruff, harsh, heavy-handed, hoggish, homely, ill-bred, ill-mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelaborate, joggly, lacerated, left-handed, lob, loutish, low-bred, lubberly, lumpish, piggish, ragged, ribald, rough, rude, rugged, scurrilous, surly, swinish, thick, uncivil, uncouth, uncultivated, unkind, unladylike, unparliamentary, untaught, vulgar, vulgarian, wooden), descortês (discourteous, displeasing, inurbane, joggly, mannerless, rough, rude, unceremonious, uncivil, ungracious). (various references) prost crescut (crude, currish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, mannerless), necioplit (barbarous, boorish, churl, churlish, coarse, loutish, oafish, rough, unaccomplished, uncouth, unpolished, with the bark on), grosolan (boorish, broad, brutish, churlish, clumsy, coarse, coarsely, crass, crude, currish, elephantine, flagrant, glaring, gross, grossly, homespun, ill bred, indecorous, indelicately, inurbane, large, loutish, oafish, rank, rough, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, trivial, unaccomplished, vulgar). (various references) невоспитанный (boorish, discourteous, ill bred, ill mannered, ill-bred, ill-mannered, low-bred, uncultured, unnurtured). (various references) mìobhail. (various references) nevaspitan (bad-mannered, churlish, cubbish, malapert, naughty, rude, unbred, uncivil), neuljudan (ill mannered, impolite, rough, rude, unbecoming, uncomely), neučtiv (discourteous, disrespectful, impolite, rude). (various references) malcriado, mal educado (cubbish, ill bred, ill mannered, ill-bread, ill-mannered, impolite, loud). (various references) ohyfsad (caddish, clownish, crude, ill mannered, ill-behaved, low-bred, rude, uncivil, uncouth, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), obelevad (ill bred, ill mannered, ill-bred, ill-mannered), oartig (discourteous, ill mannered, impolite, rude). (various references) terbiyesiz (bad, blackguard, blackguardly, broad, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarse grained, dirty, graceless, ill bred, ill mannered, immodest, immoral, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent, indelicate, inelegant, insolent, mannerless, naughty, ribald, risky, risque, rude, scabrous, shameless, uncultured, underbred, undressed, unpolished), saygısız (brash, discourteous, disregardful, disrespectful, flip, flippant, hoggish, impertinent, impious, impudent, inconsiderate, insolent, irreverent, rude, stroppy, undutiful, unfilial, ungalant), kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, underbred, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), görgüsüz (graceless, ill bred, mannerless, provincial, uncouth, underbred), ayıp (attaint, blot, blotch, brand, contempt, disgrace, disgraceful, dishonor, dishonour, failing, indecorous, indecorum, inglorious, nasty, obscenities, odium, opprobrious, reproach, reproachful, shame, shame on you, shameful, slur, spot, what a shame). (various references) vô lễ; vô giáo dục (unmannered), tính bất lịch sự (immodesty, unmannered, unmannerliness), mất dạy (hairy, hairy-heeled, ill-bred, unbred, ungentlemanly, unmannered). (various references) di-foes (rude), anfoesgar (rude). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "unmannerly" (pronounced 'Un*man"ner*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-m-n-n-n-r-u-y" | |
-2 letters: mannerly. | |
-3 letters: numeral, nunnery, unlearn, unmanly. | |
-4 letters: almner, lanner, laymen, manner, manure, mauler, meanly, namely, nearly, neural, runnel, unreal, uranyl. | |
-5 letters: annul, early, lamer, larum, layer, learn, leary, leman, lemur, lumen, lunar, manly, marly, mealy, meany, muley, mural, namer, nanny, numen, ramen, realm, relay, reman, renal, rumen, runny, ulema, ulnae, ulnar, unarm, unary, unlay. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-m-n-n-n-r-u-y" | |
+2 letters: unmanneredly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 6D 61 6E 6E 65 72 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. -- .- -. -. . .-. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101101 01100001 01101110 01101110 01100101 01110010 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n m a n n e r l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 006D 0061 006E 006E 0065 0072 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55807967808071847891 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Translations: Modern 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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